Improvement in barbed fences



UNITED STATES lTENT CFFICE.

JACOB IIAIsH, or'nn IIALB, ILLINoIs.

IMPROVEMENT IN BARBED FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,634, dated February 17, 1874; application filed December 27, 1873.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB HAIsI-I, of the city and county of De Kalb, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Device to be attached to Fences for Turning Stock 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specication, in Which- Figure l is an edgeview of a panel with iron bands. Fig. 2 is an edge view of a Wooden panel. Fig. 3 is a detail view.

The invention relates to means of eftectually turning stock with hoop-band or other light railed fences; and consists in novel means of applying barbs to deter the animals from rubbing against the fence, or otherwise bringing to bear their weight so as to break down, injure, or impair the same.

A represents a fence-panel with rails made of ordinary hoop-iron; and B, a panel, with Wooden rails. G C are pronged attachments,

made of strips of sheet metal, cut into prongs that are subsequently bent at right angles, so that they point in four different directions. These pronged attachments are fastened by rivets to the sides of metal rails, or by nails.

to the top ofwooden rails of the fence at distances apart of from six to twelve inches longitndinally along the rail, so that the prongs Will project one from each ofthe four edges of the rail.

By the application of these pronged attachments to any ordinary fence, an eiIectual bar is formed against the escape of the stock.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The sheet-metal pronged attachments C C, constructed and applied as and for the purpose specified.

JACOB HAISH.

Witnesses SOLON G. KEMON, CHAs. A. PETTIT.

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